Capitolo 54
common life, it was standing in a first stage of development in
ecclesiastical matters, as in legal and constitutional. In organization,
in to learn, and in behavior, ecclesiastical England to the eve of the
Norman conquest cannot unjustly be comparative to ecclesiastical Europe of
the tenth century. There was the same loosening of the obligations of a ground of common ownership
organization, the same tendency to separate above in closed local unity to
interest in them alone. National suggestions had practically stopped
reunion. The legislative apparatus of the Church threatened with disappearing in
that of the State. A body of out, the witenagemot seemed around to
acquires the right of imposing rules and regulations on the Church, and
another power of out, the king to acquire the right to name his
official. Entirely as main point in the eyes of the Church as the lack of
legislative independence was the lack of judicial independence that was
also a defect of the Church English. The law of the Church as it was born
on the life of the citizen it was declared and it strengthened in the one hundred or
court of county, and bishop and ealdorman sat together in the seconds. Only
on the ecclesiastical guilts of his/her clergy the bishop did has
exclusive jurisdiction and this it was well probably a jurisdiction
developed that on the continent. The power of the primate on his
suffragans and of the bishop inside his/her diocese it was sick defined and
vague, and questions of disputed authority or the doubtful fidelity
lingered from very without exact decision, perhaps from lack of interest,
perhaps from lack of the means of decision.
In to learn, condition was also worse. The schools of cloister had
immediately a rebate marked since the great days of Theodore and Alcuin.
Only it was not the parish priests ignorant men but equal bishops and
abbots. The universal language to learn and faith was neglected, and
in England alone, of all the countries you hover theological you/they were written in the
local language, a sure signal of isolation and the lack of interest in the